voodoo
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- n a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
- n (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities
- n a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities
- v bewitch by or as if by a voodoo
- High in the voodoo hills of Haiti above Port-au-Prince, a big bonfire crackled one day last week.
- Call it voodoo or magic, we had him do a bit of it for this issue.
- This incident and four others in recent years have sparked the most systematic inquiry ever made into the legendary voodoo phenomenon of zombiism.